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[Approved for ETHICS CREDITS] You will learn about the practical aspects and strategies of establishing and maintaining a disability management program, including collaborating with advocacy groups, adhering to the Americans with Disability Act, and determining essential job functions through job analyses.

Series 1: Practical Aspects of Disability Management

[Approved for ETHICS CREDITS] You will learn about the character strengths and virtues that comprise Positive Psychology and how employers and employees can view their work through the new psychology’s lens. You will learn how disability management programs can incorporate Positive Psychology principles to aid impaired individuals in continuing their meaningful work.

Series 3: Positive Psychology

Series 6: Disability v. Impairment

[Approved for ETHICS CREDITS] You will learn the critical distinction between impairment and disability, about the tripartite process for assessing damages, and the vocational expert’s role of assessing occupational disability and the actual cause of that disability. In addition, you will learn about strategies for occupational recovery and who is responsible for an employee’s return to work.

[Approved for ETHICS CREDITS] You will learn about the multi-dimensional process of vocational assessment and evaluation of an individual’s earning power following the onset of injury and/or illness. You will also learn about functional capacity evaluations and how they have the potential to be an invaluable tool for the vocational expert.

Series 5: Assessments

[Approved for CRCC PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT CREDITS and CCMC & CDMSC ETHICS CREDITS] You will learn about hiring and maintaining effective employees, as well as how to develop behaviors, attitudes, and communication methods that are conducive to healthy workplaces. You will also learn about concepts that explain why workplaces are sometimes unproductive and how to counteract those phenomena.

Series 2: Leadership in Employee-Employer Relationships

[Approved for ETHICS CREDITS] You will learn about chronic pain in the workplace and how using opioids to treat chronic pain affects the workplace, as well as ideas for employers to control specific issues of back pain. You will also learn about the role of independent medical examinations and their importance.